Samson by Shawn Hoffman is book written based on true events which happened during World War II in Auschwitz. Dr. Josef Mengele who was conducting horrible surgical experiments on Jews especially children using no anesthesia and Rudolf Hoss a high ranking military official in Nazi Germany discover that Samson Abrams is a former boxing champion. They have been having boxing matches for the entertainment of the troops and high ranking officials. The Nazis enjoy the watching and betting on the outcomes and the Jewish participants fight the fight of their life—the winner getting extra food rations and the loser get death in the gas chamber located within the camp. This truth was hidden by the German forces running the camp both during and after the war. This book tells some of the horrors of this war and life in the concentration camps. It tells of the tireless work of Maximilian Kolbe a Polish Catholic priest imprisoned for hiding Jews who never gave up hope nor gave up working for the good of mankind right up until his death.
To say that this book is difficult to read is an understatement but it needs to be read by all adults “lest we forget and repeat history”. I had to stop reading this book many times just in order to get over the horror contained in the writings. I would stop and clean a room to get my mind off of the atrocities not only of life during a war but of the things that Nazi Germany subjected these concentration camp prisoners. Though I believe that this book needs to be read by all adults I also think that if a parent allows a child to read it, even an older child that the child needs to be closely observed for signs of trouble digesting the horror of this book and definitely needs to be read by both parents before allowing the child to read it. This book is well written and I am glad to be given the opportunity to read it.
This book was provided by Booksneeze for this review.
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